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Manage a small town’s workers and resources across 12 eras, unlocking interwoven stories as you investigate a grisly murder.
Released 19 Nov 2025
Manage Town Workers
Link Resources Across Eras
Unlock Character Stories
A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.
Developed by Chaystar Unlimited LLC · Published by Chaystar Unlimited LLC
A brutal murder in Asbury Pines opens a mystery that unfolds through the town’s residents across twelve eras, from the late Stone Age to the distant future. You oversee the town as its people, plants, and animals appear in different periods and contribute to its history.
Assign characters to gather resources, work at locations, explore nature, analyze artifacts, or advance their lives. These activities generate resources and experience that unlock story fragments, new characters, places, and further progression.
Build production chains and connect economies across eras, with some resources flowing from earlier periods into later ones. Science, government, and religion research offer upgrades, while idle and offline progression let tasks continue between sessions.
In this supplied review sample, players who enjoyed Asbury Pines often praised its unusual blend of idle resource management and a mystery revealed through short stories, and liked discovering how characters and events connect across eras. Writing, worldbuilding, and character moments were recurring highlights. Opinions were more divided on the management loop’s depth and the story’s resolution; frequent criticisms included slow waits, cumbersome menus, and late-game progression bottlenecks.
“Godforsaken. No other word for it. A murder so brutal it made the whole town of Asbury Pines look itself in the mirror. We work, we raise kids, we do our best, we let time run its course, and then we’re still left scratchin’ our heads. Why did this evil have to happen?”
- Rodney “Buzz” Snow, Sheriff of Asbury Pines
Asbury Pines is a first-of-its-kind story incremental/idler title. Combine and synthesize the work of Asbury Pines townfolk (the Pinies) to unveil a murder mystery across the small town’s history – from the late stone age to the deep future. Immersive writing and image-rich worldbuilding pair with idle/incremental gameplay. As you unlock an array of characters, artifacts and places from one era to the next, combine them and their unique stats in different ways to build and link resource production economies… across centuries. What emerges is a sprawling factory of working lives that unveils a story embedded in the flow of time.
If you enjoy gameplay that balances resource management, rich narrative development, automation/factory strategy, and idle progression, Asbury Pines was made for you!
From Hrokk the caveman to Moharan the temporal physicist, strategize and connect the work of Pinies through the dozen eras of Asbury Pines history. As you create and modify your resource production engine, you unlock more people, places, and upgrades that combine to strengthen yields and unveil greater depths of a grand mystery.
The breadth and possibility of your plans grow alongside the story.
There ain’t any angels among the Pinies, but a good many are hearty folk who aspire to make a proud home. How did this bizarre murder happen, and why? The narrative begins in the present day and spreads – past and future – across 12 eras from the late stone age to the deep hereafter. Each era brings more details, characters, intrigue, and answers to a mystery that spans the flow of time.
Explore how individual insights, conversations, and documents – stories from wildlife, artifacts, inhabitants, heroes, and invaders – piece together and connect one era to the next, one answer to another.
More than 50 people, plants, and animals with unique stats and backgrounds emerge across the history of Asbury Pines. They drive the mystery with their personal stories, age across timelines, and contribute to the resource growth needed to progress.
Features
Expansive worldbuilding based on an image-rich narrative.
Accessible and evolving progression systems that build on unlocked content, characters, and places.
Many hours of balanced resource management, story development, and progression gameplay.
More than 50 characters with 350+ stories to discover and utilize.
Offline progression can be enabled/disabled and game speed increased for different play styles.
No microtransactions for consistent player experience.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 31 |
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| Controller required | No |
| AI disclosure | AI assisted with early art concepting. Every piece of final in-game art is handmade by the developers. |
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